The terminally irritating Glenn Beck has signed a deal to leave CNN and go to Fox News. My reaction is the same reaction I would have upon learning that Celine Dion had signed a deal to perform in Branson, MO, or that George W. Bush was to go from being president of the United States to being the Grand Poobah of a college fraternity: it's really where you should have been all along.
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Beck to Fox News
Posted on: October 19, 2008 9:23 AM, by Ed Brayton
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Hallelujah! He'll feel right at home in that cesspool.
Posted by: Doug Alder | October 19, 2008 10:37 AM
Little does he know, though, that Rupert Murdoch actually fell for the Global Warming Hoax!
Just like, you know, every scientific body in the world.
Posted by: nedlum | October 19, 2008 10:42 AM
WTF, that moron does stand-up comedy tours?
Posted by: mgordon | October 19, 2008 12:20 PM
Now if only they could get rid of Nancy Grace.
Posted by: Chuck | October 19, 2008 12:48 PM
Sad day when CNN loses a "thinker" like that.
Posted by: Dave S. | October 19, 2008 1:38 PM
I think its great news. The more AM loudmouth know-nothings and Republican politicians the network adds to its the roster the less feasible it becomes for it to continue the pretense of being a news organization.
Posted by: Hume's Ghost | October 19, 2008 3:10 PM
Why the hell does any network give Beck a contract to do anything?
I know he likes to think of himself as something of a political humorist a la Colbert and Stewart, but Beck is light years away from their level of intelligence and talent.
Beck is neither insightful, clever, nor interesting in any way.
He is a living void.
Posted by: CHV | October 19, 2008 5:14 PM
Check out the comments on that site. Yeah, that shows who the FOX news people appeal to.
Posted by: Reynold | October 20, 2008 5:36 AM
You've got to wonder what Fox is getting out of this deal. It's not like they're short of obnoxious wingnuts, and Beck's show is just about the lowest rated on cable news. Maybe they just want to monopolise the far right.
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | October 20, 2008 7:53 AM
it will all be fine unless they have a bible fight. can you imagine them comparing definitions of Jesus or who Joseph Smith really was
Posted by: clevedan | October 21, 2008 2:04 AM
Who?
Posted by: pough | October 22, 2008 1:21 AM